Questions from a Reading of Meridian
1. What seer told Polyphemus that he would be blinded by a man named Odysseus?
2. What twin brothers introduced the worship of the Muses (of whom they recognized only
three) to Mount Helicon?
3. What nurse of the Muses bore a child by Pan?
4. Who was that child? He was immortalized in the constellation Sagittarius.
5. In what order did Otus and Ephialtes pile mountains to reach the Heavens?
6. What pious king helped Poseidon and Apollo build the walls of Troy for Laomedon?
7. On what mountain outside of Thebes did the Sphinx wait for travelers?
8. Correspondingly, what was the Sphinx’s name?
9. What hero took a fancy to the white poplar tree, when he encountered it in Thesprotia,
and introduced it to the Peloponnesus?
10. According to one really strange version of Servius Tullius’s birth, a slave-woman saw a
vision of a giant phallus in the fireplace. Tanaquil then had her dressed as a bride and
locked in the room with that fireplace. Servius Tullius was conceived. Who was that
slave-woman?
11. What creature boasted of stabbing Enceladus’s shield with his spear during the
Gigantomachy?
12. What Rhodian sorcerers invented the art of making statues of the gods, could control the
weather, and fled the Flood because they foresaw it?
13. According to the Orphic myths, Dionysus was conceived when Semele ingested the heart
of what son of Zeus and Persephone?
14. By what was Perdix inspired to create the saw?
15. Can you name a mortal woman who was the daughter of an Olympian by a mortal?
16. On what two occasions did Hera use the form of an old woman named Beroë to tell
mortals unwise things? (Once she took that form, once she had Iris take it.)
17. Whom might Achilles have married in the Isles of the Blessed?
18. Who was the concubine of Ajax the Greater, the mother of his child Eurysaces?
19. By what river did Hercules capture the Cerynitian hind?
20. When Odysseus returned to Ithaca, what anti-Odysses partisan did Laertes himself kill?
21. Who founded the Telepylus, the city of the Laestrygonians?
22. With what beautiful youth did Laius, king of Thebes, become infatuated as a young man?
23. Who discovered Laius’s body after Oedipus killed him (Laius)?
24. What illegitimate son of Oeneus guarded Meleager on the Calydonian boar hunt?
25. What wise man immediately knelt down, after breaching the walls of Troy in battle, to
make an altar to Heracles the Victor?
26. Who was Priam’s loveliest daughter?
27. Who was Priam’s eldest daughter?
28. Who was Priam’s eldest son (by Hecuba)?
29. Who was Priam’s second child (by Hecuba)?
30. Who was Priam’s youngest son (by Hecuba)?
31. Of Minos, Rhadamanthys, and Sarpedon, which might not have been the son of Europa?
32. After Hephaestus fell from the sky for a day and a night and landed on Lemnos, what
people cared for him?
33. What island was so infested with hares, according to Hyginus (and so bordering Things
Certamen Does Not Ask, like Greek history and Greek folklore—very distinct from
mythology in this instance), that the inhabitants had to form a line across their whole
island to drive the hares into the sea?
34. On what island did Orpheus’s head wash up?
35. What were the names of the wicked architects who end up dead because of their
wickedness and duplicity, and I always forget?
36. What Titans were the parents of Leto?
37. To what sort of tree did Leto cling during the birth of her children?
38. Who gave Delos its first name, which was taken from the animal into which she turned
after jumping off the island to escape Zeus?
39. How old was Apollo when he killed the Python?
40. What pair of goddesses healed Aeneas’s wounds at one point during the Trojan War?
(Specifics?)
41. What daughters of Leucippus (great-granddaughters of Perseus) did the Dioscuri abduct
and marry, respectively?
42. What youth dressed as a girl to try to win the affections of Daphne, but was killed when
he refused to go swimming and was discovered?
43. Who, the herald of Hercules, brought him the poisoned tunic from Dejanira?
44. Who was killed by the sons of Hippocoön, who were in turn killed by Heracles, for
throwing a stone at their dog?
45. What cupbearer did Heracles kill with a rap of his knuckles?
46. Whose cupbearer was he?
47. We all know that the Heliades were turned into poplar trees while they mourned
Phaethon. What musician king was turned into a swan while mourning him?
48. What people attacked Heracles and would have killed him had not a shower of stones
from the skies provided him with ammunition?
49. To what city (now called Marsala) was Butes transported by Aphrodite after she had
rescued him from the Sirens?
50. What bard taught music to Thamyris (buzz), Orpheus (really buzz), and Heracles (Level
II buzz)?
51. By what deity was Lotis being pursued when she was transformed into a plant?
52. Who, according to some, introduced the worship of Hermes into Arcadia?
53. What did a man transformed into a wolf after a human sacrifice have to do to become
human again?
54. What was the name of Iobates’s daughter to whom he married Bellerophon?
55. By what daughter of king Lycomedes was Achilles the father of Pyrrhus?
56. What city in Arcadia did Pausanias believe was the world’s oldest? (Again, probably not
in the realm of Certamen Knowledge, but maybe in the realm of, say, Decathlon
Knowledge.)
57. Who was the first king to be punished for opposing the worship of Dionysus?
58. Who murdered Creon?
59. Who were the parents of Xanthus and Balius?
60. Name both other names for the Fates. (Fata does not count.)
61. What giants did the Fates kill with bronze clubs during the Gigantomachy?
62. After Midas washed away his golden touch, his wealth passed to another king—Croesus.
From what river, in which Midas washed away his golden touch, was Croesus sometimes
said to gain his wealth?
63. Machaon : the Greeks at Troy :: ______ : the gods themselves.
64. What brother of Palamedes bore the news of Palamedes’ death to their father, Nauplius?
65. In what three great cities might the Palladium of Troy have ended up, after the Trojan
War?
66. Who, with his fifty sons, was killed by Theseus for making trouble for Aegeus?
67. How did Pan lure Selene into the woods?
68. Who discovered the hiding place of Demeter (presumably when Persephone had been
kidnapped)?
69. What god aided the Greeks at Marathon?
70. To what runner, just before Marathon, had Pan appeared to demand honors in Athens?
71. What half-sister of the Aloidae caused a fatal fight between two pirate leaders?
72. For what crime of his was Pandareüs killed, along with his wife?
73. By whom were most of Pandareüs’s daughters abducted while Aphrodite, who had taken
them in, was away finding husbands for them?
74. What second-best of the Trojan archers (Paris was the best) broke a truce in the Trojan
War, under order of the gods, by shooting at Menelaus?
75. Which of Cecrops’s three daughters, according to some versions, kept her promise to
Athena not to look at Erichthonius?
76. Which of Cecrops’s three daughters tried to bar a god from entry into her sister’s
bedchamber?
77. And (if you know all of their names, it’s process of elimination here) the bedchamber in
question belonged to which sister?
78. What servant took care of Phineus while he was plagued by the Harpies?
79. What three people might have explained the portents Hecuba dreamed while pregnant
with Paris?
80. To what shepherd did Priam entrust Paris to be exposed?
81. What kind of animal nursed Paris?
82. Who was Paris’s first wife?
83. On what mountain did she say that she would wait for him? (Where she’d wait, not where
she said that)
84. Whose funeral drew Menelaus from Sparta, providing Paris an opportunity with which to
get away with Helen?
85. How does one spell the perfect form of “to kidnap”?
86. What two boys (including one of the Seven Against Thebes) became fast friends when
they were both exposed on Mt. Parthenius at birth?
87. For whose death was Patroclus banished from Opus, his boyhood home?
88. What Trojan warrior wounded Patroclus before Hector finished him off?
89. Why do Athenians have lean thighs?
90. At the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia, which centaur tried to carry off the bride?
91. What early king of the Arcadians went some little way towards civilizing them by
inventing huts, sheepskin coats, and teaching the Arcadians to eat acorns?
92. The murder of what half-brother of theirs was the reason for the banishment of Telamon
and Peleus?
93. When Psamathe, the mother of the murdered boy above, sent a wolf to ravage Peleus’s
flocks, who interceded for Peleus?
94. What woman, the wife of Acastus, fell in love with Peleus, and when rebuffed, told
Peleus’s first wife (an Antigone) that Peleus was engaged to another woman (not true)
and told her husband that Peleus had tried to rape her?
95. Since Acastus couldn’t kill a man whom he had purified, what steps did he take to try to
dispose of Peleus?
96. What did Peleus do with the body of Acastus’s wife after he killed her?
97. How did Telephus get his name?
98. How did Pelias get his name?
99. What deity was so smitten with the beauty of the resurrected Pelops that the deity
(temporarily) carried him off to Olympus?
100.
For what prize did Oenomaus’s charioteer, Myrtilus, agree to sabotage the lynchpins of the king’s chariot?
101.
What did Pelops do to appease Myrtilus’s father for his murder?
102.
What was the name of the “haunted” rock in the racecourse at Olympia?
103.
Who was the cousin of both Achilles and Hector?
104.
Who instituted the Heraean games and why?
105.
Who celebrated the first Nemean games and why?
106.
What games might Heracles the Dactyl have instituted?
107.
If Zeus instituted those games, why did he do so?
108.
Who was commanded by the Delphic oracle to reinstitute the Olympic games, to
promote peace?
109.
When Helenus (who sometimes helped the Greeks) foresaw that Troy would not
fall unless (among other things) the Greeks got hold of one of Pelops’s bones, which one
did the Eleians send them?
110.
What was the name of the fisherman who accidentally dredged up that bone,
brought it back to the Eleians, and was appointed its guardian in perpetuity?
111.
What are the names of the Spartoi?
112.
What are the names of the Graeae?
113.
What was the name of the Harpy who spoke to Aeneas in the Strophades?
114.
What were the names of the lightning-forging Cyclopes?
115.
What were the names of the Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handed)?
116.
For how many years did Penelope hold off ther suitors by unweaving Laertes’s
shroud every night?
117.
Why did Achilles kill Thersites?
118.
Which two of the following did Perdix invent? Choose from the compass, the
ladder, the curtain, the potter’s wheel, the olive press, and the threshing fan.
119.
By whom was Machaon killed?
120.
Who were the foster parents of Oedipus?
121.
Gorgophone was the first widow to remarry. Name her husbands.
122.
Who was turned into an island after her father, Aeolus, threw her into the sea for
bearing two sons to the river-god Achelous?
123.
Periphetes, also known as Corynetes, was a lame outlaw killed by Theseus. What
was Periphetes’s trademark weapon?
124.
As a favor to his brother, Bias, who wanted to marry Pero, Melampus got himself
put into the prison of what king?
125.
With whom did Adonis choose to spend his free third of the year?
126.
Danaë gave Perseus two names—what was the other?
127.
What lustful king of Seriphus (you don’t need the rest of this question)…?
128.
Who were the parents of Andromeda?
129.
According to Ovid, what are the origins of coral?
130.
At what event, on the island of Larisa, was Acrisius accidentally killed?
131.
Who was the father of Arete?
132.
How was her husband, Alcinous, related to her father?
133.
Who was the first king of the Phaeacians on Scherië?
134.
What daughter of Minos did Theseus marry?
135.
Who was the most beautiful youth created by Prometheus?
136.
Whom did Clymene marry, making him Phaethon’s adopted father?
137.
What youth—of parentage even more distinguished that Phaethon’s own—goaded
Phaethon into seeking proof of who his father was?
138.
Whom did Io marry, making him that youth’s adopted father?
139.
On the banks of what river did the Heliades stand?
140.
Phaethon was also an epithet applied to what Colchian nephew of his more
famous uncle?
141.
Who accidentally killed his sister Hyrnetho (awful name)?
142.
Who were the sons of Dionysus and Ariadne?
143.
What position did Eumaeus, who had remained loyal to Odysseus, occupy in
Odysseus’s household?
144.
What position did Philoetius, who had remained loyal to Odysseus, occupy in
Odysseus’s household?
145.
What position did Phemius, who had remained loyal to Odysseus, occupy in
Odysseus’s household?
146.
Who was the only non-eponymous king of note of Pherae?
147.
What mother of Admetus (I assume that you know the father now, given the
previous question) refused to give up her life for her son’s?
148.
Who were the first three people to win the singing contest at Delphi, in order? The
first was a woman, the second a father, the third his son.
149.
Who was the first (mortal) man to love another man?
150.
On what island was Philoctetes abandoned?
151.
What son of Demeter and Iasion invented the wagon?
152.
Who were the parents of Iasion, making it weird that he was a mortal?
153.
Into what life-form did Philyra turn from the shame of having borne a half-man,
half-horse?
154.
What brother of Cepheus led an attack on Perseus for his betrothal to
Andromeda?
155.
What bastard son of Aeacus and Psamathe was murdered by Telamon and Peleus?
156.
What king curied Antiope of her madness and married her?
157.
Why had Antiope been driven mad?
158.
What centaur, while entertaining Heracles, was accidentally killed when he
dropped one of Heracles’s poison arrows on himself?
159.
Who was the first man to gather people into a city?
160.
What did Ino do to the kingdom’s grain, as part of her plot to get Athamas to
sacrifice his children by Nephele?
161.
Whose impotence, caused by the anger of a dryad incurred by his father,
Phylacus, did Melampus cure?
162.
What son of Augieas was banished for objecting to his father’s treatment of
Heracles?
163.
For whom did Picus scorn Circe?
164.
Into what life-form were the mortal Pierides turned for their presumption?
165.
Into what life-form were the Minyades turned for their impiety?
166.
What deities, fleeing Typhon, are represented by Pisces?
167.
What are the names of the Pleiades?
168.
Which Pleiade shines most faintly and why?
169.
Name a group named for a foster parent of theirs.
170.
Name a group named for their mother.
171.
Why was Iasion killed by Zeus?
172.
What physician was told to settle where he would not be harmed if the sky were
to fall?
173.
Who took command of the Philacian forces in the Trojan War after his brother
stepped first onto the shore? (Rhyme!)
174.
If Poeas, the archer-king, was an Argonaut, what was his most important
contribution to the voyage?
175.
What prudent companion of Hector was born on the same night?
176.
What treacherous king of Thrace killed Polydorus for a quantity of Trojan gold?
177.
What sort of plant was Aeneas gathering when he discovered this murder?
178.
What seer helped Bellerophon tame Pegasus and found Glaucus drowned in a
substance of which Winnie-the-Pooh is fond?
179.
From what sign did that seer determine Glaucus’s fate?
180.
That seer’s interpretation of what event let Minos know that that seer was the one
who would find Glaucus?
181.
How did that seer, once Minos had shut him in a tomb with Glaucus’s dead body,
restore Glaucus to life?
182.
What did Polyidus make Glaucus do when Polyidus was about to leave Crete?
183.
What two sons of Proteus were killed by Heracles when they challenged him to a
wrestling match?
184.
What exiled Theban prince bribed Eriphyle with Harmonia’s necklace to make
Amphiaraus go to war?
185.
What father of Theoclymenus was a seer second only in prominence to
Amphiaraus in their generation?
186.
In whose favor did Galatea scorn Polyphemus?
187.
Who gave Odysseus the wine that he gave to Polyphemus?
188.
What three Argonauts were abandoned by their comrades in Mysia?
189.
What pair of inseperable Lapiths temporarily repulsed the Trojan attack on the
Greek wall?
190.
According to the writers who say that Achilles sued for the hand of Polyxena,
who killed him?
191.
Who were the two strongest giants in the Gigantomachy?
192.
According to the Arcasians, how was Poseidon saved from Cronus’s maw and
where was he hidden?
193.
According to the Rhodians, who reared Poseidon and hid him from Cronus?
194.
When Poseidon, Athena, and Hera bound Zeus, whom did Thetis fetch to rescue
him?
195.
When Poseidon and Helius were vying for the patronage of Corinth, how did
Briareus rule in judgment?
196.
What three river-gods were asked to judge between Hera and Poseidon for the
patronage of Argos?
197.
What city’s patronage do Poseidon and Athena officially share?
198.
Where was Poseidon’s palace?
199.
Of how many horses was Poseidon’s chariot?
200.
To whom did Amphitrite flee when Poseidon first courted her?
201.
What minor deity found her and persuaded her to marry Poseidon?
202.
Surprisingly, Poseidon had only three legitimate children. Name them.
203.
Into what body of water do the three springs Poseidon created for Amymone turn?
204.
In the form of what river god did Poseidon seduce Salmoneus’s daughter, Tyro?
205.
Which of Poseidon’s epithets means “Earth-shaker”?
206.
Who was the offspring of Demeter and Poseidon, who was conceived when both
deities had taken the forms of horses?
207.
Among whose herds had Demeter taken refuge?
208.
In whose temple was Medusa seduced by Poseidon?
209.
Who were the offspring of that union?
210.
In what form did Poseidon seduce Medusa (if not that of a human)?
211.
What about Theophane?
212.
And Canace? (More information.)
213.
And Melantho? (More information.)
214.
What Argonaut, granted the power to change his shape by his grandfather,
Poseidon, was killed in battle in the form of an eagle by Heracles?
215.
What was Caenis’s wish after Poseidon raped her?
216.
When Poseidon had a stake in the Delphic oracle (sharing it with Ge at first), what
was the name of the person through whom he spoke?
217.
For what island did Poseidon cede his share of the oracle?
218.
When Minos tossed a ring into the sea, what else did Theseus bring back?
219.
By visiting what country did Poseidon allow the other gods to help Odysseus
return home?
220.
Why did Poseidon at one point during the Trojan War save Aeneas from an
attack?
221.
What was special about the well of Potniae?
222.
What was Priam christened?
223.
To what ally did Priam give his first wife, Arisbe, the mother of his son Aesacus?
224.
To whose altar did Priam cling just before being killed by Neoptolemus?
225.
What animal, to which Dionysus had given human voice, did Priapus beat to
death?
226.
What twins, the sons of Aristodemus, invading with the Heraclids, founded two
separate ruling houses of Sparta?
227.
According to Apollodorus, with what did Pteleon successfully bribe Procris to
sleep with him?
228.
Why did Minos give Procris a spear that never missed and the hunting dog
Laelaps? (They might also have been from Artemis.)
229.
What was Procrustes’s real name?
230.
What twin brothers, sons of Abas, began quarreling before they were born?
231.
What was the first time that shields were used?
232.
Why did Stheneboea kill herself?
233.
Who was the one Argive woman whom Melampus failed to cure of madness?
234.
What younger brother of Jason did Pelias kill before he reached adulthood?
235.
What happened to Phaenon, the beautiful youth Prometheus had made?
236.
What god told Zeus that Prometheus had been hiding this youth?
237.
How did Prometheus trick Zeus into letting man keep most of the meat from a
sacrifice?
238.
In what plant did Prometheus smuggle fire to earth?
239.
For how long was Prometheus chained to the Caucasus?
240.
Who was the wet-nurse of Aeneas?
241.
(This is history, I think.) What Persian governor of Sestus, under Xerxes, looted
and generally desecrated Protesilaus’s temple?
242.
What sign did Protesilaus give that the Persian would be punished if he did not
change his ways?
243.
What happened to that Persian?
244.
What nymph gave Menelaus several seal-skins and an ointment for the stench?
245.
Who captured Proteus to find out why his bees had died?
246.
Where was Proteus, the king of Egypt, buried?
247.
Who were the first and second wives of Alcmeon?
248.
What did Cupid warn would happen to their child if Psyche looked at him, her
husband, while he was sleeping?
249.
Who helped Psyche sort the piles of grain?
250.
Who instructed Psyche how to get the wool of the man-eating sheep safely?
251.
Who got the jar of water from the Styx’s source for Psyche?
252.
And why did that being do that? (Not, as in most cases in fairy tales, out of the
sheer goodness of its heart.)
253.
Who gave Psyche directions for how to get a box of ointment from Proserpina?
254.
Why did Pterelaus, king of the Taphians, have a golden hair on his head which
would prevent him from dying as long as it remained on his head?
255.
Whose cattle did Pterelaus send his six sons (and a bunch of soldiers) to steal?
256.
What was his justification for that theft?
257.
With whom did the Taphians, having killed all the sons of the king who owned
the cattle, leave them?
258.
Why did Amphitryon ransom the cattle from that king and set out in an expedition
against the Taphians?
259.
What was the name of Pterelaus’s daughter, who fell in love with Amphitryon and
gave Pterelaus’ golden hair to Amphitryon?
260.
What was the name of the daughter born to a statue?
261.
What faithful cousin of Orestes (buzz) married Electra?
262.
At whose tomb were Pyramus and Thisbe to meet?
263.
What daughter of Pandora was the first mortal-born woman?
264.
What charioteer of Amphiaraus was swallowed by the same chasm?
265.
What trader was commanded by King Etearchus to throw his daughter, the
princess Phronime, into the sea?
266.
How did that trader avoid murder?
267.
Why was their son, Aristoles, given the new name Battus?
268.
For how long did Battus ignore the Pythia’s command to colonize Libya?
269.
During what activity had Corobius, the Theraean’s guide, come to Libya?
270.
How did the Thereaeans convince their cowardly returning colonists to go back to
Libya?
271.
To which of Battus’s ancestors (seventeen generations back, apparently) did
Triton give a clod of earth as a symbol of the family’s destiny?
272.
How was Battus cured of his stammer?
273.
What Egyptian pharaoh unsuccessfully attacked those colonies?
274.
Of what tribe was Amycus, the boxer, king?
275.
What was Bellerophon’s birth name?
276.
At what spring did Bellerophon catch Pegasus?
277.
Which two of the following did Bellerophon not fight? Choose from the Solymi,
the Lapiths, the Centaurs, the Amazons, and the Lycians.
278.
Who were the four children of Bellerophon and Philonoe? (These you need not
know, but should recognize.)
279.
Who was the father of Anchinoë, the wife of Belus, king of Egypt?
280.
In Prometheus Bound, what two personifications help Hephaestus nail
Prometheus to the cliff?
281.
What was the ancient name of the Danube?
282.
What was the real name of the Bona Dea?
283.
What god was worshipped as the chief deity of Megalopolis, in gratitude for his
delivery of them from Spartan attack?
284.
On whose horses did Boreas father twelve stallions, fleet as the wind?
285.
Why is the Bosporus called what it is?
286.
What was the name of the nymph with whom Zeus rewarded Briareus for his aid
against a revolt?
287.
What mortal woman, fleeing Minos, became a goddess when she leapt off a cliff,
where she hit the nets of a fisherman and died?
288.
On what rock did Broteas carve the oldest image of Cybele?
289.
How did Broteas die?
290.
What Egyptian king was told to sacrifice one foreigner a year, but was soon killed
by Heracles?
291.
To what Sicilian city did Aphrodite transport Butes, the Argonaut?
292.
What was the name of the bacchant whom Butes, the pirate from Naxos, raped,
leading to Dionysus driving him to jump down a well and drown?
293.
Who were the parents of Byblis and Caunis?
294.
How many Oceanids are there?
295.
What was Ocnus’s punishment in the underworld?
296.
What two Greek heralds accompanied the embassy to appease Achilles?
297.
Who were the three main members of that embassy?
298.
Who named Odysseus?
299.
Who gave Odysseus his bow?
300.
Who refused to give Odysseus poison for his arrows, and from whom did he get it
instead?
301.
To what did Icarius raise a statue on the spot where Penelope covered her face
with her veil, thereby agreeing to leave with her husband?
302.
Whose bride did Odysseus tell Clytemnestra that Iphigeneia would become?
303.
How did Odysseus and Menelaus mark Antenor’s house to be spared by the
Greeks, in gratitude for his saving their lives when they first asked for Helen’s return?
304.
Who persuaded the Greeks to give Ajax the Greater a proper burial?
305.
Who accompanied Odysseus to recruit Neoptolemus?
306.
What two women recognized Odysseus when he came to steal the Palladium?
307.
Why did Maron give Odysseus the wine that was a plot device re: Polyphemus?
308.
What “gift” did Polyphemus promise Odysseus in exchange for more wine?
309.
What is the name of the city of the Laestrygonians?
310.
With how many other men did Eurylochus venture into the woods of Aeaea, and
with how many others did he venture back?
311.
What color is moly’s flower, and what color is its root?
312.
Who was the youngest member of Odysseus’s crew, and the first he met in the
Underworld?
313.
Who was the second shade Odysseus let drink blood?
314.
Who were the two herd-girls of Thrinacia? (Thrinacia being an island.)
315.
What did Odysseus do with Ino/Leucothea’s veil, after landing on Scherië?
316.
What was special, physically, about Demodocus, the bard who made Odysseus
cry at the feast of the Phaeacians?
317.
Who did Odysseus first tell Penelope that he was?
318.
What were the names and jobs of the evil brother-and-sister servants in Ithaca?
319.
Whose mistress was Melantho?
320.
Which suitor flung a stool at Odysseus?
321.
Which suitor flung an ox-hoof at him?
322.
What was Irus’s real name?
323.
Which suitor wanted to leave Odysseus’s house, but was prevented by
Athena/fate?
324.
Why did Theoclymenus need a ride from Telemachus?
325.
Who was the first suitor to try to string Odysseus’s bow?
326.
Which two men did Odysseus and his friends spare?
327.
What Ithacan seer spoke against the march of the families of the suitors against
Odysseus?
328.
What old servant was the father of many loyal sons, and Melantheus?
329.
As whom did Athena disguise herself to restore peace between Odysseus and his
subjects?
330.
Who told Clytemnestra that Agamemnon was returning with a Trojan concubine?
331.
What did Odysseus use to blind himself?
332.
What were the names of Althaea’s brothers, the oft-referenced ‘sons of Thestius’?
333.
Why did Oeneus kill his son, Toxeus?
334.
Oeneus was the father of Tydeus. Who are the two women who might have been
his mother?
335.
Whose sons deposed Oeneus in favor of their father?
336.
When Diomedes overthrew Agrius, taking his father back to Argos with him, who
ascended to the throne?
337.
From whom had Oenone learned the art of prophecy?
338.
What son of Dionysus blinded Orion for assaulting his daughter, Merope?
339.
Who had been Orion’s first wife?
340.
Who healed Orion from his blindness?
341.
How had Orion crossed the sea to get to that healer?
342.
Who guided Orion on that journey?
343.
How did Oenopion’s subjects save him from the vengeful returning Orion?
344.
On what mountain was Heracles’s funeral pyre?
345.
Ogygus was king of the Ectenes, the first people to inhabit the region of Thebes.
What happened to him and his people?
346.
What king married two of his daughters to the Moliones?
347.
What husband of hers did Omphale succeed on the throne of Lydia?
348.
Who gave the horse Arion to Heracles?
349.
Who was Arion’s harness-mate?
350.
On a bed of what vegetable had Hypsipyle laid Opheltes?
351.
Why had Hypsipyle, his nursemaid, tried to avoid putting him on the ground?
352.
What two Hyperborean women, one of whom Orion might have raped, came to
Delos with Artemis and Apollo?
353.
Ops was associated with Rhea, and thus sometimes married to Saturn. With what
god was she more commonly worshipped?
354.
What father of Amphiaraus might have been killed while guarding Heracles’s
ships at Troy?
355.
Oreithyia was carried off by Boreas from near what river?
356.
Who were their two daughters?
357.
Who reared Orestes, after he was sent away from his mother?
358.
Who cast the deciding vote for the acquittal of Orestes?
359.
Who was the Taurian king when Iphigenia was there?
360.
Whose death allowed Orestes to take over Argos?
361.
When, in the city of Megalopolis, Orestes bit off of his fingers, what did the
Erinyes do?
362.
Where was Orestes buried within Tegea?
363.
Why did it matter?
364.
What clever Spartan figured this out?
365.
What king caused the conception of Orion by asking three gods, who were
visiting him at the time, for children?
366.
Which three gods created Orion (originally, and unfortunately, named Urion) by
urinating on the hide of a bull?
367.
What did Orion say that so alarmed Gaia that she sent a scorpion to kill him?
368.
Which Argonaut, on the outbound voyage, introduced the rest of them to the
Samothracian mysteries?
369.
Down what river did Orpheus’s head float before reaching the sea?
370.
Whose dog was Orthus?
371.
Whose servant was Orthus’s master?
372.
When Aphrodite first appeared to Anchises, whose daughter did she pretend to
be?
373.
What daughter of Triops conceived twins by pouring seawater into her lap?
374.
What daughter of Orion was the mother of Hylas?
375.
What stepmother of the Aloeadae betrayed the location where they were keeping
Ares in a bronze jar to Hermes?
376.
For how long had Ares been kept in that jar?
377.
The Aloadae wooed two goddesses. Which one wooed which?
378.
What was their punishment in Tartarus?
379.
Who was the Heraclids’ guide through the Peloponnesus?
380.
Why was that guide banished from Elis for a year?
381.
How was Oxylus’s conflict with king Dius resolved?
382.
What former Olympic wrestling champion killed Hyllus in a duel to determine
whether the Heraclids would invade?
383.
What king, proverbial as a wrecker of ships who also imprisoned his daughter and
forced her to mill grains of bronze, did suitors in the Odyssey use as a bogeyman with
which to threaten the beggars?
384.
Who killed Echidna?
385.
What guileful Argonaut threw the first spear at the Calydonian boar hunt?
386.
What grandfather of Scamandrius was killed with his seven sons in one day?
387.
With what Egyptian goddess was Io identified?
388.
What youngest of the Oceanids married Aeëtes?
389.
How did Galanthis trick Eilithyia into letting Alcmene give birth?
390.
Into what life-form was Galanthis turned?
391.
Whose clinging to the Palladium was involved with its ejection from heaven?
392.
Who were the only two named “participants” in the battle between the
Mycenaeans and the Taphians to survive? [this question may be bogus]
393.
According to Apollodorus, what was the accident by which Amphitryon killed
Electryon?
394.
Where did Endymion have his eternal sleep?
395.
Augeias at first defeated Heracles with the help of what three men?
396.
Where did Heracles treacherously kill the Moliones, allowing him then to sack
Elis?
397.
Who was the father of the Moliones?
398.
Which of the judges of the Underworld presided over Elysium?
399.
To what god did Spartan youths sacrifice puppies?!
400.
What descendant of Melampus did Eos carry off to live with the gods?
401.
What happened to Memnon’s Ethiopian troops when he died?
402.
And what sign occurred at the funeral of Memnon himself?
403.
What group abducted the young Epaphus?
404.
What son of Endymion, sharing a name with a famous builder, won a footrace
with the prize of a kingdom?
405.
How, precisely, did Apollo and Heracles kill the non-Aloadae giant Ephialtes?
406.
Where did Tiresias die?
407.
Which of the Epigoni took the throne of Thebes?
408.
What king married Antiope when she fled her father?
409.
Why did Creusa not commit suicide when her father, Erechtheus, sacrificed his
youngest daughter to increase his likelihood of victory over Eleusis?
410.
What two deities and two mortals received sacrifices in the Erechtheum, on the
Acropolis?
411.
What three men volunteered to become the Argo’s helmsman after Tiphys died?
412.
What sons were the result of a command to Delphi that the older man asking the
question “fix a new tip to his plow”? (I.e., you can still have a full life even starting old.)
413.
What two Argonauts were killed while rustling the sheep of the high-born Libyan
shepherd Caphaurus?
414.
What king of Troy, husband of Astyoche, succeeded the childless Ilus and became
the world’s richest man?
415.
Who were the two children of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus?
416.
What nymphs were born from the falling blood of Uranus?
417.
You’re just standing there in your city, when you hear that your boyfriendsometimes-husband is preparing his fleet to set sail. You start cursing him out, and want
to call the Furies down on him. What action in addition to a verbal invocation, while
standing there, do you take to get their attention?
418.
What father-and-son pair convinced Eriphyle to send her family members off to
war?
419.
How did Heracles trap the Erymanthian boar?
420.
What pious and shape-shifting daughter used her powers to (unsuccessfully)
attempt to save her father from his hunger?
421.
Who stole Helius’s cattle from Gadeira?
422.
Who, sharing a name with a king of Thebes, was the first man to name and
sacrifice to the Graces?
423.
What descendant of Polyidus chose violent death at Troy over disease at home?
424.
What son of Admetus married Iphthime, and would have won first prize in the
chariot races at Achilles’s funeral games if not for Athena’s spite?
425.
Why did Eumelus, a king in the region of Patrae, found with Triptolemus a city
alled Antheia?
426.
What man, raised by Poseidon’s daughter Benthesicyme, was banished from
Ethiopia for trying to rape his sister-in-law?
427.
How did that king, son of Poseidon and Chione, help Heracles after Heracles had
murdered several centaurs?
428.
What king of Lemnos used his ships to provide the Greek forces in the Trojan
War with wine?
429.
Which Argonaut, ancestor of Battus, was so fleet that he could run over water?
430.
What was Zeus, in the form of a bull, eating when Europa first saw him?
431.
What father of Sparta, and early king of Laconia, had as his most important
contribution to his country the building of a canal?
432.
Who were the guardians of Cyanippus, Adrastus’s son?
433.
What two Greek herlads went to fetch Briseïs for Agamemnon?
434.
For what price did Laertes buy Eurycleia?
435.
Eurydice was the name of at least three women besides Orpheus’s girlfriend.
Name their husbands by their chidren, respectively: Danaë, Haemon, and Laomedon.
436.
What most-favored of Penelope’s suitors was the second suitor Odysseus killed?
437.
Athena taught Eurynome to be as wise as the gods. Whose mother was she?
438.
What Thessalian king stopped human sacrifices in Aroë because he had been
driven mad by an image of Dionysus that he had found in a box?
439.
Two Eurypylus’s fought in the Trojan War—how did Priam convince the mother
of one of them to let him fight?
440.
Heracles, son of Electryon and Alcmene, was destined to become a king in the
Peloponnesus, but Hera circumvented that in favor of Eurystheus. Who were his parents?
441.
What daughter of Pelias did not participate in the choppy-choppy?
442.
After which labor of Heracles did Eurystheus jump into a bronze jar and forbid
that Heracles ever again enter the city with the fruits of his labors? (ha-ha! a pun!)
443.
What uncle of Eurystheus served as a messenger between the king and Heracles
thereafter?
444.
What king refused to protect the Heraclids because his city, Trachis, was weak?
445.
What king, who had once been protected himself by Elephenor, did so instead?
446.
Who, in the mural in the temple of Juno that Aeneas sees in Carthage, is about to
die from being dragged backwards by the reins of his chariot?
447.
What king, who had given Peleus his daughter Antigone in marriage, did Peleus
accidentally kill on the Calydonian boar hunt?
448.
Eurytus/Eurytion, leader of the disruptions at the wedding of Pirithous and
Hippodamia, was killed by Heracles when he tried to force a marriage to what daughter
of Dexamenus?
449.
Whom did Heracles throw from the walls of Tiryns?
450.
Why had that man come to seek Heracles?
451.
What son of Nestor had the duty of telling Achilles that Patroclus had died?
452.
Which of Nestor’s sons safely returned home from the Trojan War?
453.
How did Dionysus kill Eurytus in the Gigantomachy?
454.
Who fought the ghost of a sailor of Odysseus, to whom humans were sacrificed?
455.
What daughter of Iphis, like Laodamia, cast herself on her husband’s pyre?
456.
What son of Apollo and a different Evadne, having been fed honey by two snakes,
had the gift of prophecy?
457.
Who was Evander’s father?
458.
In what river did Evenus drown himself in grief/frustration when he couldn’t
pursue Idas any further?
459.
What sea-deities helped the Argonauts pass the Wandering Rocks?
460.
When Perseus killed the Haliae, female followers of Dionysus from many islands,
which did he separate for her own grave?
461.
From what mountain did the timber for the Trojan Horse come?
462.
According to Sinon, what seer had helped Odysseus betray him?
463.
What Trojan married Helen after Paris’s death?
464.
What Greek was fooled by Helen’s skill at imitating the voices of their wives, and
would have betrayed them if Odysseus had not clamped his hand over his mouth?
465.
Where did Sinon light the beacon recalling the Greek fleet from Tenedos?
466.
What Greek leapt down from the Horse, rather than using a rope, and so died?
467.
Which arrow is immortalized as a constellation?
468.
What daughter of Chiron and Chariclo was turned into a horse for revealing too
much of the future?
469.
After whom did Cychreus name his kingdom?
470.
What king, while throwing torches in the air to simulate lightning, was, along
with his whole city, struck down by a lightning-bolt?
471.
What wife of Salmoneus mistreated his daughter by Alcidice, Tyro?
472.
Which of the following is not a name associated with Dionysus in any way
whatsoever? Choose from Gebelzeïzis, Salmoxis, Aidoneus, Liber, and Bacchus.
473.
What gods were worshipped in the Samothracian mysteries?
474.
With what son of Zeus and Cassiopeia—immediate family only on the divine
side—did Minos, Sarpedon, and Rhadamanthys fall in love?
475.
Sarpedon’s followers became known as the Lycians, after Lycus, but what were
they called before his name became attached to them?
476.
What sign occurred when Sarpedon died?
477.
Who rescued Sarpedon’s body from battle?
478.
What brothers carried Sarpedon’s body back to Lycia?
479.
The river near Troy from which Astayanax received his other name—what did the
gods call it, and what did mortals call it?
480.
Why did the Scamander flood the plain of Troy?
481.
Why did it sink back between its banks?
482.
What creature ate Sciron’s cliff-kicking victims?
483.
How did Aeacus settle a dispute about the kingship of Megara?
484.
What sons of Iphitus led the Phocian contingent of the Trojan War?
485.
Who was the father of Atalanta?
486.
What Scythian king was turned into a lynx when he tried to kill Triptolemus?
487.
What Thracian king killed one of Triptolemus’s dragon-serpents?
488.
Name the Horae, three daughters of Zeus and Themis.
489.
What goddess did they attend?
490.
Who turned into a river in grief when his girlfriend, Argyra, broke up with him?
491.
What special power did that river’s water hold?
492.
Under what name was Semele honored on Olympus?
493.
What goddesses were worshipped on a cave on the Acropolis?
494.
An oracle told Polynices to hitch his daughters to a lion and a boar. Who was the
lion, and who was the boar?
495.
What brother-in-law of Capaneus had a name very similar to a certain king of
Thebes?
496.
Who gave Polynices the advice to get Amphiaraus’s participation by persuading
his wife, not Amphiaraus himself?
497.
Whom did Amphiaraus tell to avenge him?
498.
Mecisteus and Eteoclus are sometimes listed as members of the Seven Against
Thebes. Why would they sometimes bring the total to nine, and so are left off?
499.
Who won the chariot race at the first Nemean games?
500.
What two men led the force of 50 that Eteocles sent against Tydeus?
501.
Tiresias foresaw that Thebes itself would not be taken if what son of Eteocles
sacrificed himself?
502.
What Theban might have buried Tydeus?
503.
The lawlessness of Epopeus, Antiope’s husband for a brief space, drove away
what son of his?
504.
Whose childlessness had allowed Epopeus to take the throne?
505.
What daughter of Sicyon bore Polybus to Hermes, and Androdamas by Phlias (a
son of Dionysus and her husband)?
506.
Why did Orion lose his first wife?
507.
What relative of the Trojan royal family visited Belus in Phoenicia, seeking aid in
finding a kingdom and becoming the reason that Dido had heard of Troy’s fall?
508.
What three gods did Sinope trick, when they wanted her favors, by asking for one
request first? In each case the god acquiesced, and in each case she asked for eternal
virginity.
509.
On what mountain did Niobe become a weeping rock?
510.
What was the result of the contest between the Muses and the Sirens?
511.
How did Sisyphus avenge himself when Autolycus stole his cattle?
512.
What river-god did Sisyphus inform of Zeus’s abduction of his (the river’s)
daughter?
513.
In whose honor did Sisyphus found the first Isthmian Games?
514.
With what animal was Apollo Smintheus associated?
515.
Who were Leda’s daughters?
516.
After what charioteer of Pelops was the island where Aethra lay with Poseidon
and Aegeus named?
517.
Who banished Amphitryon, as much because it was to his own benefit as because
of justice?
518.
What son of Diomedes’s charioteer, Sthenelus, seduced Diomedes’s wife,
Aegialeia on Nauplius’s instigation?
519.
Why were the Strophades called such?
520.
What did Pelops do once he had won the friendship of Stymphalus?
521.
Why did Zeus vow always to keep Styx’s children with him and make the Styx
the object of infallible oaths?
522.
Who were Styx’s children by Pallas?
523.
How did Heracles, while serving Omphale, kill Syleus and his daughter,
Xenodice?
524.
What river (not river-god) stopped Syrinx’s flight (by blocking her path)?
525.
What mother of a son of Cephissus was told by Tiresias that her son would live a
long time if he “never knew himself”?
526.
From what port did the Heraclids embark on their successful invasion?
527.
What three women were given to Nauplius to sell, and to whom did he sell them?
528.
What nefarious deed of Nauplius’s occurred on Cape Caphaurus?
529.
Why did Nausithous lead the Phaeacians to Scherië in the first place?
530.
What are the three ancient names of the island on which the Aloadae died and
Ariadne was abandoned?
531.
Who was the mother, by Helius, of the two Thrinacian nymphs who guarded their
father’s flocks?
532.
Tradition has it that Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, was descended
from a Greek hero. If you trace her genealogy backwards, who is the first mythological
figure you encounter?
533.
Whom did Tyro marry?
534.
Who gave Neleus refuge when he and Pelias fought and Neleus was driven out?
535.
What bride-price did Neleus ask for Pero, his daughter by his wife Chloris,
daughter of Amphion?
536.
Why did Heracles massacre most of Neleus’s family while Nestor was out of
town?
537.
Who buried Neleus in a grave so secret that he would not reveal its location to
Nestor?
538.
If Nemesis was Helen’s mother, who took the egg with Helen in it to Leda?
539.
While disguised as a girl and operating under the name “Pyrrha,” with whom did
Achilles conceive Neoptolemus?
540.
What suitor of Cassandra was killed by Neoptolemus?
541.
Who else, from Cabesus, was a suitor for her hand?
542.
What was the name of the cloud shaped like Hera that Zeus showed to Ixion?
543.
At what river did Nessus encounter Heracles and Deianira?
544.
Where was Nestor when Heracles was sacking Pylus?
545.
When Neleus took Nestor’s horses to prevent him from going into battle against
the Eleians raiding Pylus, what Eleian leader did Nestor kill, on foot, and take the chariot
of?
546.
How did Nestor escape a goring by the Calydonian boar?
547.
While doing what did Nestor’s son Antilochus die?
548.
What son of Nestor accompanied Telemachus to Sparta?
549.
What herb/drug did Helen give Telemachus?
550.
From whom had she gotten that herb/drug?
551.
What brothers claimed the throne of Sparta, but were passed over for Orestes?
552.
Who was the first mortal woman to be loved by Zeus?
553.
Why did Minos attack Megara, while Nisus was king?
554.
What birds were Nisus and Scylla turned into in the wake of her treachery?
555.
Who raped Nyctimene?
556.
What one son of Lycaon was spared by Zeus, through Gaia’s intervention?
557.
What was the order of the races of man, according to Hesiod?
558.
Who appointed Rhea Silvia to be a Vestal Virgin?
559.
Why did Telamon exile Teucer?
560.
Whom did Alcmene marry in the Underworld, or after the death of her husband?
561.
How many years did it take Menelaus to reach Sparta from Troy?
562.
Why were Minos and Rhadamanthys made judges in the Underworld?
563.
Under what circumstances was Rhesus conceived?
564.
Why did Odysseus and Diomedes, after killing Rhesus and twelve of his men,
drive off his horses?
565.
Who killed Rhexenor while he was still a newlywed?
566.
By whom did the eponym of Rhodes bear seven sons?
567.
What nymph, struck mute by Jupiter, did Mercury fall in love with the
demureness and listening skills of while he was leading her to the Underworld?
568.
What was Romulus’s name as a deity?
569.
Romulus and Remus were nursed by a she-wolf, but what animal fed them?
570.
What daughter of Acrisius and Eurydice founded Ardea, the capital city of the
Rutulians?
571.
What Roman deity, perhaps once viewed as a consort of Diana, was associated
with Hippolytus?
572.
With what grove in Italy was that deity associated?
573.
What chief herald of the Greek forces at Troy helped bring Iphigenia to Aulis?
574.
Why did the ghost of that herald, who was from Sparta, interfere with Spartan
diviners’ omens?
575.
How was he appeased?
576.
Everyone knows that the water around Tantalus recedes when he bends towards
it, and the fruit above his head rises away when he reaches for it. What was the third part
of his punishment in Tartarus?
577.
Whom did Agamemnon kill so that he could marry Clytemnestra?
578.
What parents of Taphius conceived him on a then-unnamed island that was later
named after him?
579.
Alcathous, one of Hippodamia’s suitors, was sometimes said to haunt the
Taraxippus. What number was he? (First suitor, second suitor, etc.)
580.
For how long would an anvil fall to reach Tartarus?
581.
Who was the admiral of Minos’s navy, an athlete who regularly won prizes at the
games?
582.
Why did Minos resent this admiral?
583.
Precisely how many jars of wine did Maron give to Odysseus?
584.
Whom did Artemis briefly into a deer to allow her to evade Zeus?
585.
Was this transformation successful in its purpose?
586.
What did Taygete do to the horns of the Cerynitian hind?
587.
What first king of Crete was the father of Europa’s husband?
588.
Cepheus and Amphidamas were adventuring sons of Aleus, the king of Tegea.
While they were on the Argo, what brother of theirs ruled Tegea for their elderly father?
589.
What nephew of Cepheus and Amphidamas was killed by the Calydonian boar?
590.
From which of the Spartoi was Tiresias descended?
591.
Who were the parents of Tiresias?
592.
Of what wood was Tiresias’s walking-stick made?
593.
What king took in Telamon when he was banished for the murder of Phocus?
594.
Why was Ajax the Greater named after the eagle (aietos)?
595.
With what weapon did Telegonus accidentally kill Odysseus?
596.
When appearing to Telemachus, as whom did Athena first appear? She urged him
to visit Nestor and Menelaus for news of his father.
597.
For the sake of the family trees, name all the children of Agenor and Telephassa.
598.
With which of her children did Telephassa go when Agenor commanded his sons
to search for their sister?
599.
Who, out of gratitude for a spear-wound healed, guided the Greeks to his fatherin-law’s city so that they could attack it?
600.
What son of his by his wife, Astyoche or Laodice, fought for the Trojans?
601.
How did Telphusa avoid having Apollo’s oracle at her spring?
602.
Why was Temenus, the Heraclid who received Argos, overthrown by his own
sons, of whom the eldest, Ceïsus, seized the throne?
603.
By what wife of his was Tenes the mother of Cycnus?
604.
When Tenes’s stepmother, Philonome, accused him of rape, what most
treacherous flute-player backed up her accusations?
605.
Whom else did Cycnus throw into the chest he set adrift, with Tenes?
606.
What did Cycnus do when he learned the truth?
607.
Who killed Tenes, despite a strict warning from his mother not to do exactly that?
608.
What son of Tereus and Procne gets cut into pieces and served to his father?
609.
Into what bird was Tereus transformed, after dinner, as he pursued his wife and
her sister with drawn sword?
610.
Who transformed Aesacus into a diving-bird when he leapt into the sea from
some sort of love-related grief?
611.
How did Zeus save Hector from Teucer’s arrows?
612.
What king welcomed Teucer to Cyprus?
613.
What youngest son of Neoptolemus captured Teuthrania and renamed it for
himself?
614.
Where was Pasiphae worshipped as a moon-goddess?
615.
What was the result (much less amusing than that of the Sirens) of Thamyris’s
singing contest with the Muses?
616.
With whom did Thanatos once wrestle?
617.
What was Thebes’s original name?
618.
For how long did Cadmus have to serve Ares to atone for killing the dragon?
619.
Who was the third king of Crete?
620.
In honor of whose wife was Thebes renamed?
621.
What king of Thebes, at the time the Epigoni arrived, led the escape from Thebes?
622.
In or after whose reign did the Thebans convert to an oligarchy?
623.
What pretext did Heracles make up to attack Theiodamas, Hylas’s father, and
conquer his whole tribe, the Dryopes?
624.
What wife of Athamas killed herself after accidentally killing Schoeneus and
Ptous, two of her sons, while trying to kill Athamas’s sons by Ino?
625.
On what island was the golden ram conceived, after Poseidon turned the islanders
into cattle and Theophane’s suitors into wolves, seemingly just for kicks?
626.
To whom did the stag which Ascanius killed belong?
627.
Who killed Camilla?
628.
Who defends the rights of his nephews, sons of Aristodemus, to receive a third of
the land the Heraclids won in their invasion?
629.
Why was the son of Theras named Oeolycus after he refused to leave Sparta with
him?
630.
Who was the nurse of Nausicaä?
631.
Who bribed Eriphyle with a robe, as his father had done with a necklace?
632.
What was Odysseus’s reaction to Thersites’s speech against the war in Book I of
the Iliad?
633.
To which gods did Achilles sacrifice, on Lesbos, to atone for Thersites’s murder?
634.
Who was the first bandit whom Theseus encountered?
635.
What vow of Perigune’s did her descendants by Theseus ever honor?
636.
In what town did Theseus encounter an evil bed-and-breakfast run by Procrustes?
637.
Whose descendants purified Theseus before he entered Athens?
638.
How did Theseus answer ridicule of his dress by Athenians on a roof?
639.
What son of hers was Medea scheming in favor of when she suggested to Aegeus
to send Theseus against the Marathonian bull?
640.
How did Aegeus recognize Theseus in time to save him from Medea’s poison?
641.
What is the source of aconite?
642.
What informer told Theseus of the rebellious machinations of Pallas and his sons?
643.
Theseus’s defense of what maiden, a relative of his who might have been the
mother of Ajax by Telamon, was the cause of an argument between him and the amorous
Minos on the way to Crete?
644.
If it was Thetis, not Amphitrite, who gave Theseus a jeweled crown, where did
she get it?
645.
With what weapon did Theseus kill the Minotaur?
646.
Some people say that Ariadne married a priest of Dionysus. What was his name?
647.
What dance commemorated Theseus’s stop in Delos?
648.
What games did Theseus reinstitute and rededicate to his father, Poseidon?
649.
What was the logic of the placement of Phaedra’s shrine to Aphrodite?
650.
Who told Theseus that Hippolytus had always been innocent?
651.
How did Theseus and Pirithous become friends?
652.
To what city did Theseus take Helen after abducting her?
653.
What first demagogue led the Athenians discontented with Theseus and was,
while Theseus was in Hades, placed on the throne of Athens by the invading Dioscuri?
654.
At what battle were the Athenian soldiers convinced that Theseus’s ghost had led
them to victory?
655.
Whose self-sacrifice saved Thespiae from a dragon?
656.
What many-daughtered king purified Heracles of the murder of Megara?
657.
In whose household was Pelopia living when Thyestes raped her?
658.
What two items did Hephaestus make, on Thetis’s request, for Achilles?
659.
For what sister of Epeius, builder of the Trojan Horse, might Theseus have left
Ariadne?
660.
What name was shared by the grandfather of Oxylus, a king of the Taurians, and
Hypsipyle’s father?
661.
What son of Chryseis helped Orestes kill Thoas, king of the Taurians?
662.
On what island did Thoas, the king of Lemnos, wash up?
663.
From what place had Agamemnon procured Chryseis?
664.
What husband of Polydamna served king Proteus as warden of the mouth of the
Nile?
665.
What revenge did Mastusius take on Demophon for the sacrifice of his daughter?
666.
How had Mastusius so offended Demophon that Demophon sacrificed
Mastusius’s daughter?
667.
What prophetesses divined the future with pebbles?
668.
What is a Thyiad?
669.
Of what country was Phineus the king?
670.
For whom did Timandra, one of Leda’s daughters, leave her husband Echemus,
king of Arcadia?
671.
Among what people did Tiphys, son of Hagnias and the first helmsman of the
Argo, die of an illness?
672.
Whom did Proëtus convince to fortify the walls of Tiryns for him?
673.
What daughter of Alcmeon and Manto was raised by Creon, but found herself
sold into slavery by Creon’s wife, then bought back (unknowing) by Alcmeon?
674.
For how long did the Titans wage war agains the Olympians from their base on
Mount Othrys?
675.
What brother of Priam was abducted by Eos?
676.
Of what countries were Emathion and Memnon, respectively, king?
677.
Citizens of what city traditionally stole earth from the tomb of Amphion and
Zethus at Thebes to throw it on the tomb of Amphion and Phocus?
678.
What mother of Tityus was hidden in the earth, after Zeus had seduced her, to
hide her from Hera?
679.
How did Tlepolemus kill his uncle Licymnius?
680.
Where did Tlepolemus and his wife, Polyxo, go after being exiled?
681.
What king of Trachis was the son of Eosphorus?
682.
Who invented the wheel to increase the speed with which he could spread the
knowledge which Demeter had taught him?
683.
Who defeated a wild triton that had been attacking Tanagran women performing
religious rights?
684.
Which three men ruled the two towns later combined into a city and known as
Troezen?
685.
What wealthy Sicyonian bought his way out of participation in the Trojan War by
giving a very nice mare to Agamemnon?
686.
How did Cinyras, king of Paphos, who gave Agamemnon a breastplate, get out of
sending fifty ships to Troy?
687.
What omen did Calchas interpret to mean that Troy would fall in the ninth year?
688.
Why did Agamemnon abduct the daughters of Anius?
689.
Into what life-form were they transformed by the gods?
690.
How did Achilles kill Cycnus, a man invulnerable to weapons?
691.
What daughter of Priam was sacrificed to Achilles?
692.
Whose treasury was the crowning glory of the Orchomenian builders of Apollo’s
temple at Delphi, Poseidon’s first shrine, and Alcmene’s bridal chamber? I.e. Trophonius
+ Agamedes.
693.
How did Trophonius keep himself from getting caught, once Agamedes was?
694.
How did Saon discover the oracle of Trophonius?
695.
How did Zeus console Tros for the loss of his son Ganymede?
696.
Who was the father of Dardanus’s wife, Bateia?
697.
Who were the parents of Turnus, king of the Rutulians?
698.
Name three goddesses, and say what they personified, whose names sound like
“Mikey.”
699.
By whom, specifically, was Tydeus banished?
700.
By whom was Phylonoë immortalized, after she died young and dodged the
family tendency to cheat on husbands?
701.
Why did Aphrodite inflict that tendency on Phylonoë’s three sisters?
702.
According to Hesiod, whose body is the source of all malignant winds?
703.
According to Apollodorus, on what mountain did Zeus wrestle with Typhon,
while all the other gods hid in Egypt?
704.
Delphyne guarded Zeus’s sinews, wrapped in a bearskin, when Typhon cut them
out. In what cave did she guard them?
705.
Who stole the sinews back?
706.
Who convinced Typhon that mortal food would strenghten him, when it did
nothing of the kind?
707.
What son of Lynceus and Hypermnestra was the father of Acrisius and Proëtus?
708.
What squire of Heracles was eaten by the mares of Diomedes when Heracles left
him guarding them and went to fight the pursuing Bistones?
709.
From what city did Leander nightly swim to Sestus?
710.
What daughter of Minos bore a Libyan chieftain sometimes called Garamas to
Apollo?
711.
What Bisaltian princess turned into an almond tree when her fiancé settled in
Cyprus?
712.
Why was it significant that Acastus joined the crew of the Argo?
713.
What fellow Argonaut took refuge with Acastus in Iolcus after killing someone?
714.
What wife of Acastus fell in love with that Argonaut?
715.
What king of Eryx’s arrow burst into flames in the archery contest in the Aeneid?
716.
Who had really deserved to win by hitting the dove in flight?
717.
To whom did that one pray for the arrow to find its mark?
718.
How did King Selinus forestall Ion’s burgeoning rebellion?
719.
What sons of Achaeus rose to such prominence in Argos, after emigrating there
and marrying two daughters of Danaus, that Achaean became synonymous with Argive?
720.
What non-eponymous wife of Zethus accidentally killed their son Itylos and was
transformed into a nightingale?
721.
Who was made admiral of the Greek fleet?
722.
To whom did Heracles give a lock of Medusa’s hair to protect her city, Tegea?
723.
What ally of Turnus was called a son of Vulcan because his mother conceived
him when a spark from a fire flew into her lap?
724.
What brothers killed one of the Dioscuri, but were both killed by his brother?
725.
Pius : Aeneas :: fides : ________.
726.
On what river delta did Alcmeon find refuge from the Furies?
727.
Why did Achelous sweep away five nymphs, who were transformed into the
Echinadian Islands?
728.
What daughter of Achelous was the nymph of the spring at Delphi?
729.
What was Achilles’s birth-name?
730.
Who gave Achilles his new name?
731.
What did Chiron make Achilles eat to toughen him up?
732.
Who arranged for Achilles and Helen to have their uneventful meeting?
733.
How many cities did Achilles sack by sea and land, respectively, during the first
nine years of the Trojan War?
734.
What sons of Priam did Achilles ransom back to him, and later kill in battle?
735.
What did Achilles sacrifice at Patroclus’s funeral games?
736.
How did Odysseus cheer Achilles a little bit in the Underworld?
737.
What pirate helmsman defended Dionysus, having been captured, from the rest of
his crew?
738.
To what cities do these four citadels belong? The Byrsa, the Acrocorinth, the
Cadmeia, and the Larisa.
739.
What king of Argos got away with shutting the gates of his city on Dionysus?
740.
Who was punished after, while hunting on Mt. Cithaeron, he saw a goddess
bathing?
741.
Who was the father of the Moliones?
742.
What happened to Admetus when he forgot to sacrifice properly to Artemis at his
wedding?
743.
Who was the father of Myrrha’s child?
744.
How was Adonis born?
745.
With what Egyptian deity did the Greeks associate Typhon?
746.
What two nymphs, aided by the Curetes, raised the baby Zeus?
747.
What was the previous name of the island Aegina, to which Zeus had carried
Asopus’s daughter of the same name?
748.
What sign let Aeacus know that one of his descendants would destroy Troy?
749.
What sister-in-law of Eidyia bore a monstrous son to a bull?
750.
To whom was the grove where the hide of the golden ram was kept sacred?
751.
By whom was Aeëtes deposed?
752.
What elderly woman entertained Theseus on his way to capturing the
Marathonian bull?
753.
The failure of the sacrifice of whose daughters to bring relief for a plague forced
Aegeus to agree to Minos’s demands regarding feeding Athenians to the Minotaur?
754.
What daughter of Adrastus and Amphithea did Nauplius convince to cheat on her
husband, Diomedes?
755.
What king of the Dorians asked for Heracles’s help against the threatening
Lapiths, led by Corinth, promising to give him a third of his kingdom?
756.
Whose idea was it to have the gods change their shapes to escape Typhon?
757.
What goat-suckled baby killed his adopted father?
758.
Who warned him not to have an affair with Clytemnestra?
759.
What twin sons of Belus and Anchinoë gave their parents 100 grandchildren?
760.
What mythological figure was reincarnated as Pythagoras?
761.
What king of Delos first told Aeneas that he should seek the land of his ancestors?
762.
What son of Hellen and Orseïs killed his daughter Canace for committing incest
with his son Macareus?
763.
What son of Hippotas was given charge of the winds?
764.
What river did Jason carry Hera across?
765.
What youngest son of Cresphontes was reared by his mother’s father, Cypselus?
766.
How did he avenge the murder of his father and brothers on the man who had
married his mother?
767.
What daughter of Catreus was married to Atreus, but cheated on him with
Thyestes?
768.
From whom did Aeasacus learn the art of prophecy?
769.
Why was Aeasacus turned into a bird? (There are two possible versions.)
770.
What son of Hermes was endowed by his father with the ability to retain his
memory in the Underworld, and served as the herald of the Argo?
771.
Who rescued Aethra from Troy?
772.
What region’s original inhabitants were known as Curetes?
773.
Which seer saw the need for the sacrifice of Iphigeneia?
774.
What king of Illyria did Agave marry and murder for the sake of Cadmus’s
political advancement?
775.
Why did Agenor order his sons away from his kingdom?
776.
What son of Antenor did Apollo rescue from battle and then assume the form of
to draw Achilles away from the gates?
777.
What second-handsomest (after Achilles) of the Greeks at Troy was also one of
(if not the) tallest?
778.
With whom did Diomedes trade armor, and who got the better end of the deal?
779.
Who, after engaging in single combat with him, had given Ajax the sword with
which he committed suicide?
780.
With what weapon was Ajax the Lesser, second-fastest runner among the Greeks
at Troy (after Achilles), particularly skilled?
781.
What was the original name of the river renamed after King Tiburinus?
782.
To what child, twice suckled by mares, did Theseus grant the rule of Eleusis?
783.
What two sons of Androgeus did Heracles take as hostage, but later set up as
rulers of the island of Thasus?
784.
Name the people who died while participating in the Calydonian Boar Hunt.
785.
How did Ischepolis’s brother, Callipolis, die?
786.
Why was Alcathous awarded the kingdom of Megara and the hand of the
daughter, Euaechme, of its former king, Megareus?
787.
How many days did Alcmene spend in labor before Galanthis broke Eilythia’s
charm?
788.
Who asked that her sons grown to manhood overnight to avenge their father?
789.
Why did Phegeus order his sons, Pronous and Agenor (or Temenus and Axion) to
kill Alcmeon?
790.
To whom did Arsionë’s brothers sell her for protesting the murder of her
husband?
791.
To what city was Ceyx, Alcyone’s husband, going when he drowned?
792.
What giant had to be dragged by Heracles from his native Pallene to be killed?
793.
According to Vergil, which Fury did Juno send to stir up a war in Latium?
794.
According to Ovid, which Fury did Juno send to stir up madness in the king of
Orchomenus?
795.
How did Ancaeus’s grandfather, Aleus, try to prevent him from going with the
Argonauts?
796.
Why did Cercyon kill his daughter, Alope?
797.
What daughters of Thestius had children named Helen and Meleager,
respectively?
798.
Who kicked Apemosyne to death when she was discovered to be pregnant by
Hermes?
799.
What relative of his did that man accidentally kill, thinking him a pirate?
800.
What river’s sands contained many bits of amber?
801.
What river’s sands contained many bits of gold?
802.
Which river’s bed contained live coals?
803.
What man emigrated from Ambracia to Erythia, where he kept a herd of cattle
that he entrusted to Eurytion and Orthus?
804.
By what two deities was Amphiaraus loved?
805.
What two men killed each other but shared an oracle after their death?
806.
What was the result of the divination contest between Mopsus and Calchas?
807.
What pious suitor dissuaded the others from killing Telemachus?
808.
With what differing methods of construction did Amphion and Zethus build the
walls of Thebes?
809.
What half-brother of Amphitryon accompanied him and his wife, Alcmene, into
exile?
810.
Why did Amphitryon promise a share of the spoils from the Taphian raid to
Cephalus?
811.
What son of Ampycus (or Ampyx) and Chloris was one of the seers on the Argo?
812.
What son of Poseidon and Melië (one of the Meliae) was killed when Polydeuces
hit him on the ear…or the elbow?
813.
From what father of Phoenix did Autolycus steal a helmet that later ended up in
the possession of his grandson Odysseus?
814.
What uncle of Jason held the Olympic games when the sons of Pelops left Elis?
815.
What island, whose name means “revelation” in Greek, was revealed to the
Argonauts when Apollo shot a flaming arrow through the night to show it to them?
816.
What bear-skin-wearing, axe-toting youth was chosen as Heracles’s oar-partner?
817.
A seer told Ancaeus that he would not live to what event?
818.
What son of Capys and Themiste stole some of Laomedon’s horses to breed with
his own mares?
819.
Under what name was the dead Androgeus, catalyst for the feeding of Athenian
youths to the Minotaur, honored in Athens?
820.
To whom was Andromache given as a prisoner?
821.
To whom was Hecuba given as a prisoner?
822.
Who gave the daughters of Anius their special abilities?
823.
What daughter did Staphylus throw into the sea for becoming pregnant with
Anius by Apollo?
824.
Who was Dido’s sister?
825.
Who persuaded Poseidon to immortalize Ino and Melicertes as Leucothea and
Palaemon?
826.
To what use did Antaeus put the skulls of his victims?
827.
What Anthedonian fisherman was turned into a sea-deity?
828.
After what event did Haemon, Creon’s son, kill himself?
829.
What son of Nestor took second place in chariot-racing from Menelaus at the
funeral games of Patroclus by trickery?
830.
Why did the Atreidae ignore the offers of ransom for Peisander and Hippolochus,
killing them instead?
831.
What insolent suitor did Odysseus kill first?
832.
In what shape did Zeus lie with Antiope?
833.
What king of Messenia welcomed the exiled Lycus and the exiled Neleus?
834.
How did Zeus’s eagle help Hermes seduce Aphrodite?
835.
What was the fate of Myrrha’s three sisters, also daughters of Cinyras, who had
incurred Aphrodite’s displeasure a little bit less than Myrrha herself? (Having only
displeased her in some unspecified way, like Myrrha, without compounding it by having
some claim made about her beauty by her mother.)
836.
How did Aphrodite help Zeus seduce Nemesis?
837.
How did Aphrodite punish Helius for telling Hephaestus about her and Ares?
838.
What son of Phoroneus and Teledice named part of the Peloponnesus after
himself, but was deposed by Telchis and Thelxion?
839.
Who nursed Apollo with nectar and ambrosia?
840.
What king of Crete purified Apollo for the killing of the Python?
841.
What was the name of the first Pythia?
842.
Over how many acres in Tartarus was Tityus spread?
843.
Where and on what occasion were flutes permitted in the cult of Apollo?
844.
What Argive musician reconciled Apollo to the instrument?
845.
With what mortal did Coronis, daughter of king Phlegyas, cheat on Apollo?
846.
What two gods courted Hestia?
847.
What country did late classical writers conceive of as the pastoral ideal?
848.
What was Cyrene doing, on Mt. Pelion, just before Apollo carried her off to
Africa?
849.
If Aeëtes buried Apsyrtus, in what city did he do so?
850.
If Medea buried Apsyrtus (and later confined a bunch of snakes in his tomb), in
what city did she do so?
851.
Why did Aphrodite curse Eos to continually fall in love with mortals?
852.
Who grieved so much for the death of his wife that Hera felt moved to transform
him into an eagle?
853.
What Lydian princess was good at weaving?
854.
What king of Arcadia taught his people how to weave and make bread?
855.
What grandmother of Laertes, mother of Laertes’s father Arceisus, was killed by
an unerring javelin?
856.
What three sons of Bias and Pero sailed with the Argo?
857.
I don’t feel like writing questions for all of these, but here are almost all of the
notable mortal children of Ares, and their corresponding mothers (in answers)
a. Evenus, Thestius, Pylus, and Molus
b. Dryas
c. Meleager (perhaps)
d. Ialmenus and Ascalaphus, two Argonauts who led the Minyan forces to Troy
e. Phlegyas, king of Orchomenus
f. Diomedes, the king of Thrace with the man-eating mares
g. Cycnus, a third one—neither the invulnerable one nor the musician.
h. Parthenopaus (perhaps)
i. Penthesilea
j. Tereus, the nasty king of Thrace
k. Oenomaus
858.
How did Ares enable Aeropus, his son by Aerope (a daughter of Cepheus), to
survive even though his mother had died in childbirth?
859.
What daughter of Agraulus was raped by Poseidon’s son Halirrhothius?
860.
What two sons of Ares and Aphrodite drove his chariot in battle?
861.
What god persuaded Hephaestus to let Ares and Aphrodite go by himself posting
bond for Ares?
862.
How many times did Heracles fell Ares when they were fighting over Pylus?
863.
What was the outcome of Ares’s fight with Athena?
864.
Which giant did Hephaestus kill with hot metal in the Gigantomachy?
865.
In what cave did Arete have Jason and Medea consummate their marriage, so that
Alcinous would protect them as a legitimate couple?
866.
What was the capital of Colchis, similar in name to the island of Aeëtes’s sister
Circe?
867.
What river flows through Aea?
868.
To which deity did Menoeceus sacrifice himself to save Thebes?
869.
What criteria had that deity required, eliminating all other candidates?
870.
From what was the Argo’s speaking prow made?
871.
Why did Jason refuse Atalanta passage on the Argo?
872.
What seer joined the crew of the Argo knowing that he would die along the way?
873.
What nurse of Hypsipyle proposed that the Argonauts spend the night with the
women of Lemnos?
874.
Who were the sons of Jason and Hypsipyle?
875.
What son of Aeneus and Aenete, king of the Doliones, was accidentally killed by
the Argonauts?
876.
What creatures attacked the Argo while most of the crew was in Fair, the port of
the Doliones?
877.
Why did those creatures not harass the Doliones?
878.
Into what was Cleite, Cyzicus’s wife and the daughter of Merops, seer-king
Rhindacus, transformed after she hung herself from grief at Cyzicus’s death?
879.
What did Mopsus, interpreting a kingfisher’s cries, prophesy that the Argonauts
must do to be able to set sail from the land of the Doliones, in which they had been
trapped by twelve days of stormy weather?
880.
Why had the Argonauts stopped at the land where Hylas was lost?
881.
What sea-god confirmed the advice of Zetes and Calaïs, that the Argonauts not go
back for their missing comrades?
882.
Why was Heracles not fated to continue with the Argonauts?
883.
After whose funeral games did Heracles kill the sons of Boreas?
884.
Who bound Polydeuces’s boxing gloves to his hands before his match with
Amycus?
885.
How were Zetes and Calaïs related to Phineus?
886.
What Argonaut released the dove that tested the Clashing Rocks?
887.
Which Argonaut was stabbed in the shoulder by a feather from a Stymphalian
bird?
888.
Which Argonaut recalled Heracles’s method for getting rid of them?
889.
What four brothers did the Argonauts encounter on the island with the birds?
890.
What three Greeks, guided by the sons of Phrixus, formed the first embassy of the
Argo to Aeëtes?
891.
Which Argonaut opposed Argus’s plan to ask Medea for help with Aeëtes’s
tasks?
892.
Whence came the drug which Medea gave Jason to conquer the fire-breathing
bull?
893.
By what name, according to Medea’s instructions, did Jason invoke Hecate?
894.
With the blood of what animal did Circe purify Medea and Jason?
895.
What was the origin of the species of snake (seps) that killed Mopsus?
896.
What name did Triton give the Argonauts when he was pretending to be a mortal
giving them directions out of Lake Tritonis?
897.
Who gave Medea twelve handmaidens?
898.
How many Argonauts were there, in theory?
899.
According to Ovid, with what story did Hermes lull Argus to sleep?
900.
What tribe at the far reaches of the classical world regularly waged war with the
griffins?
901.
What legendary poet escaped from pirates to shore by riding on a dolphin?
902.
Why did the bees of Cyrene’s son by Apollo all die?
903.
What did Aristaeus have to do to restore his bee population?
904.
Why did Artemis shoot Buphagus?
905.
Who was turned into a lizard for a mocking Demeter’s guzzling of barley water?
906.
And who was turned into an owl for tattling on Persephone?
907.
According to the Epidaurans, who said that Coronis survived her pregnancy with
Aesclepius, what shephered discovered the baby having been abandoned?
908.
Why did Aresthanes leave the baby in the wild?
909.
With what mortal did Coronis cheat on Apollo?
910.
What magic potions did Athena give Asclepius?
911.
Who was the mother of Machaon and Podalirus?
912.
What man disobeyed Hector, regarding the Greek wall, and charged it in his
chariot?
913.
Who was the father of four of the defenders of Thebes, including Melanippus?
914.
Which of his sons killed Hippomedon?
915.
Which of his sons killed Eteoclus?
916.
Which of his sons mortally wounded Tydeus?
917.
Which of his sons, if the killer was not Periclymenus, killed Parthenopaus?
918.
What mother of Hecate was turned into a quail?
919.
Who was the daughter of Asterius and Europa?
920.
Which Pleiad was directly related to Oenomaus?
921.
Which of the Greeks killed the infant Astayanax?
922.
Once Peleus had conquered Iolcus in revenge for his ill-treatment, what did he do
to Astydamia?
923.
What two centaurs tried to rape Atalanta and were killed by her?
924.
Why were Hippomenes and Atalanta turned into lions?
925.
Whose chariot did Hippomenes and Atalanta, as lions, pull?
926.
Who, according to Homer, was the first daughter of Zeus?
927.
How did Ino and Athamas disguise Dionysus from Hera when they were raising
him?
928.
Which son of Ino and Athamas was killed by his father, and which became the
sea-deity Palaemon?
929.
What was Ino’s name as a sea-goddess?
930.
What sign told Athamas that he could settle again, having been banished from
Orchomenus for the murder of his son?
931.
What wife did he take there, in the new kingdom that he called Athamantia?
932.
What priests tended Zeus’s sanctuary in Dodona?
933.
Whose form did Athena take to prevent Hector from fighting Achilles in single
combat before it was time for him to do so?
934.
With whom did the Pygmies wage war?
935.
Who won the boxing match at the funeral games of Patroclus?
936.
And the footrace?
937.
And the archery contest?
938.
And the shot put?
939.
And the chariot race?
940.
When Hermes is driving Priam’s mule-wagon to Achilles, whose son does he say
he is?
941.
How many days of truce are granted for the burial of Hector?
942.
From what gate does Helen give her guided tour of the Greek chieftains?
943.
Who strikes the first blow against Patroclus?
944.
Who is the only person to draw blood from Achilles in the Iliad?
945.
According to Homer, who is the wife of Hephaestus?
946.
According to Homer, who is the mother of Aphrodite by Zeus?
947.
Whose ship is burned in the Iliad?
948.
What nymph does Hera offer Hypnos as a bribe?
949.
What prudent companion of Hector (the same one as last time, if you can
remember back ~800 questions) advises that the Trojans retreat within their walls, rather
than facing the fury of Achilles after Patroclus’s death?
950.
In the Iliad, of what is the rainbow a sign?
951.
What two Greeks hold off the Trojans while what two others carried Patroclus’s
body back to camp?
952.
In whose form does Zeus appear to Agamemnon in a misleading dream?
953.
Who warned Zeus that if Metis bore a second child, it would be a son who would
overthrow him?
954.
Into what did Athena change Perdix when Daedalus threw him from the
Acropolis?
955.
What god’s failed rape of Athena led to the birth of Erichthonius?
956.
What son of Chariclo and Everes was transformed into a female, and then a male
again?
957.
Who was the last descendant of Theseus to rule Athens?
958.
During the reign of what king did the Athenians begin to limit the power of the
monarchy, mythologically?
959.
How did Codrus save his city, Athens, from the invading Dorians?
960.
What did the Argonauts find the Hesperides doing?
961.
For what crime were Atreus and Thyestes banished from their home city, Pisa?
962.
How did Atreus acquire his wife, Aerope?
963.
How did Thyestes acquire the kingship of Midea for a short time?
964.
How did Atreus win the kingship back?
965.
By whom was Thyestes told to have a child in order to avenge himself on Atreus?
966.
When Atreus had Thyestes in a jail cell, and sent Aegisthus to kill him, whose
blood ended up on the sword, convincing Atreus of Thyestes’s death?
967.
What consort of Cybele was conceived when Nana, daughter of Sangarius,
became pregnant by an almond from the tree that had grown from Agdistis’s
(hermaphrodite-Cybele’s) genitals, and turned into a pine-tree when he died?
968.
What prevented Auge and her son, Telephus, from accidentally consummating
their marriage?
969.
With what river(s) did Heracles clean the stables of Augeias?
970.
How did Sisyphus prove the thievery of Autolycus, regarding his cows?
971.
What three brothers from Tricca joined Heracles’s expedition against the
Amazons, settled in Sinope, and later joined up with the Argonauts for a while?
972.
Who was the charioteer of Achilles?
973.
What woman emigrated to Ereneia after her son died?
974.
What son of Heracles by a priestess of Rhea fought alongside Turnus against
Aeneas?
975.
Who was the mother of the Dactyls?
976.
The Dactyls, Curetes, and Corybantes were associated with each other—which
two were originally associated with Zeus, and which was associated with Cybele and
came later?
977.
Who invented the first sail?
978.
In whose palace did Daedalus kill Minos with boiling water in his bath?
979.
Where did Danaüs and his daughters dedicate a statue to Athena?
980.
What king of Apobathmi resigned the throne in favor of Danaüs, not because
Danaüs had a better claim to the throne, but because of an omen?
981.
What bridegroom’s life did Hypermnestra spare?
982.
Why was Leucippus, son of Oenomaus, easily able to disguise himself as a girl?
983.
What name did he take as a girl?
984.
To whom did Daphne pray for help escaping Apollo?
985.
How were Teucer and his successor, Dardanus, most closely related?
986.
What king of the Mariandynians was helped by Heracles against his enemies?
987.
When did Menelaus kill Deiphobus?
988.
What daughter of Adrastus and Amphithea married Tydeus?
989.
How did the Greeks know that the center of the universe was at Delphi?
990.
What island was named after Demeter’s sickle?
991.
Both a goddess and a mortal philosopher held what plant in contempt?
992.
Name the goddess and philosopher in question.
993.
How did Zeus help Hades carry off his daughter, Persephone?
994.
According to Orphic myth, in what form did Zeus father Zagrius on Persephone?
995.
Who confirmed, on the tenth day of Demeter’s wanderings, Demeter’s suspicion
that her daughter had been abducted?
996.
What nymph told Persephone by whom her daughter had been carried off?
997.
Who persuaded Hephaestus to free Hera from the golden throne he had trapped
her in?
998.
With what name did Demeter introduce herself to the daughters of Celeus?
999.
Who made “Doso” the nurse of her son Demophon?
1000.
What serving-woman made Demeter laugh in King Celeus’s household?
1001.
Who spied on Demeter’s attempts to make Demophon immortal, offending the
goddess either into ceasing her efforts, or into letting Demophon burn to death?
1002.
What son of Acheron and Orphne or Gorgyra did Demeter pin under a rock, and
turn into an owl when Heracles pushed the rock away?
1003.
Who reasoned Demeter into allowing crops to grow again?
1004.
To what gracious man did Demeter give the fig tree as a gift?
1005.
To what mortal, sometimes confused with Demophon, did Demeter give a
dragon-drawn chariot?
1006.
What festival to Demeter did that young man initiate?
1007.
Who was the father of both Creon and Jocasta?
1008.
What daughter of Amphiaraus, whose name has always reminded me of a devilish
donkey, married Thersander and bore him Tisamenus?
1009.
Who was the mother of Deucalion by Prometheus?
1010.
On what mountain did Deucalion and Pyrrha land?
1011.
What son of Zeus and a Sithnid nymph survived the flood by following the cries
of cranes to Mt. Geranium, called that because of the cranes?
1012.
Who transformed Daedalion into a hawk?
1013.
Who was saved from the flood by nymphs with wings?
1014.
What animal’s cries led some inhabitants of Delphi to high ground, where they
were safe from the flood?
1015.
Heracles saved Mnesimache, Dexamenus’s daughter, from a forced marriage to
the centaur Eurytion. Disregarding this, to what enemies of Heracles did Dexamenus
marry his twin daughters, Theronice and Theraephone?
1016.
What was the name of the island of Ares, in the Black Sea, where the Argonauts
encountered the Stymphalian-ish birds?
1017.
Who was the patron goddess of the plebians in Rome?
1018.
Why did Pygmalion murder Sychaeus?
1019.
What two other Epigoni did Diomedes take with him to Troy as subordinates?
1020.
Which grandfathers were the reason for the armor-swap between Diomedes and
Glaucus?
1021.
To whom did the throne of Argos fall after Diomedes, Sthenelus, etc. returned
after the Trojan War?
1022.
How many man-eating mares did Diomedes, king of the Bistones, own?
1023.
What was the fate of those mares, after Heracles released them?
1024.
When Zeus transformed Dionysus into a kid (young goat) to hide him from Hera,
the nymphs of what mountain took care of him?
1025.
Who was the only Greek to defend Nestor when Nestor’s horses were killed?
1026.
Who cured Dionysus of the madness that Hera inflicted upon him?
1027.
What animal did the maenads believe the spying Pentheus to be?
1028.
What god turned Cadmus and Harmonia into snakes as they wandered through the
land of the Encheleans?
1029.
What did the Minyades do after being driven mad and before becoming bats?
1030.
What happened to Icarius when he first shared the gift of wine with his
neighbors?
1031.
What did Erigone do when her father was killed?
1032.
And what about their dog, Maeara?
1033.
What form did Dionysus take when fleeing Typhon?
1034.
Which of the Dioscuri was mortal?
1035.
What brothers had been betrothed to Phoebe and Hilaëra, before the Dioscuri
carried them off and married them?
1036.
What special physical ability did Lynceus possess?
1037.
Which of Idas and Lynceus speared Castor?
1038.
Where did Polydeuces kill Lynceus?
1039.
How was Idas killed?
1040.
What did the oracle at Dodona interpret?
1041.
What grandson of Dolon was part of Aeneas’s party going to Italy?
1042.
Who was the mother of the 50 Nereids?
1043.
What daughter of Eurytus was seduced by Apollo and married Andraemon, who
named the god’s son Amphissus?
1044.
What happened to that woman?
1045.
What gods were honored at the annual festival Pelias held, at which Jason
appeared?
1046.
When did Jason learn the identity of the old woman he carried across the
Anaurus, losing his sandal?
1047.
According to some sources, what uncles and cousins of Jason came to the festival
to support him?
1048.
What was Jason’s only contribution to the Calydonian boar hunt?
1049.
What Erinyes-like spirits did Medea invoke against Talus?
1050.
What two sons of Ares, who managed to be successful co-kings in Orchomenus
for a while, were Argonauts and fought in the Trojan War?
1051.
What son of Jupiter and a Garamantian nymph, king of the Gaetulians, reminded
Jupiter that Aeneas’s destiny was elsewhere?
1052.
Why was Atalanta abandoned in the woods, where she was suckled by a she-bear?
1053.
From what island was Dionysus taken by pirates?
1054.
What error had the shepherds with whom Icarius shared his wine made in
drinking it?
1055.
On what mountain did Aeneas and his followers gather before setting sail from
Troy?
1056.
What herald of the Trojans drove Priam to Achilles in the mule cart, if Hermes
did not?
1057.
What tree did the Argonauts plant on Idmon’s grave?
1058.
What wife of Polymestor reared Polydorus along with her own son, Deïpylus?
1059.
What husband of Melia and the first person to worship Hera was the father of Io?
1060.
What was Leucothea’s Roman name?
1061.
When did the gods become tolerant of lovers bending their vows?
1062.
What was the name of the Bosporus before Io crossed them?
1063.
Whose worship did Io introduce to Egypt?
1064.
What son of Iphicles and Automedusa, to whom his uncle Heracles willed his
concubine Iole, served as Heracles’s charioteer and helper?
1065.
Not according to Euripides, who were the children of Xuthus?
1066.
Who were Xuthus’s brothers?
1067.
What daughter of Proetus was Bias’s second wife?
1068.
Iphionoë was the daughter of Proetus who died—which one neither died nor
married Bias?
1069.
What special physical ability did Iphiclus, cured of impotence by Melampus,
possess?
1070.
From what island did the Aloadae rescue Iphimedia and Pancratis?
1071.
To what woman was Iphis, the woman raised as a boy by her parents Ligdus (who
didn’t know about the deception) and Telethusa (who did) betrothed?
1072.
Why did Aphrodite turn Anaxarete into stone?
1073.
What son of Naubolus, king of Phocis, joined up with Jason when he went to
consult the Oracle of Delphi?
1074.
How many blows did it take Odysseus to fell Irus in a boxing match?
1075.
How did Ixion murder his father-in-law, Eioneus?
1076.
According to Hesiod’s Theogeny, what three beings sprang from Chaos at the
first?
1077.
According to Hesiod’s Theogeny, what beings did Gaia bear from herself before
Uranus became her husband?
1078.
Of what material was the sickle that Gaia gave to Cronus made?
1079.
Who was the leader of the Giants in the Gigantomachy?
1080.
How was Porphyrion, in a collaborative effort, killed?
1081.
Which Giant did Hecate kill with flaming torches?
1082.
How did Poseidon kill the Giant Polybotes?
1083.
What prop helped Hermes kill the Giant Hippolytus?
1084.
What Giant did Artemis kill? (By shooting him—very vanilla.)
1085.
Glaucus, Bellerophon’s adopted father, was killed at the funeral games of Pelias.
How?
1086.
Match the Seven Against Thebes with their Epigoni.
a. Polynices
b. Tydeus
c. Hippomedon
d. Capaneus
e. Adrastus
f. Parthenopaus
g. Amphiaraus
h. Mecisteus
i. Eteoclus
1087.
What sons of Alcmeon grew to manhood overnight because of the prayers of their
mother, Callirhoë, that they avenge their father?
1088.
What shepherd found Asclepius?
1089.
What sons of Machaon were also physicians?
1090.
From what mountain did Hermes steal out of a cave to steal Apollo’s cattle?
1091.
Who was the father by Manto (Tiresias’s daughter) of Mopsus, also a great seer?
1092.
Who raised the children (Amphilocus and Tisiphone) of Mopsus and Alcmeon?
1093.
What first suitor of Hippodamia was not only killed by Oenomaus, but had his
mares killed as well?
1094.
What daughter of Idas and Marpessa, who wasn’t Egyptian, married Meleager?
1095.
Who was the mother of Danaë?
1096.
As a Roman deity, unassociated with Ares, who was Mars’s wife?
1097.
Of what was “Mars” a contraction?
1098.
Why did Hera want Jason to bring back Medea to Iolcus?
1099.
Whose priestess did Medea say she was when claiming the power of
rejuvenation?
1100.
To whom did Aeëtes leave the throne of Corinth when he emigrated to Aea?
1101.
What successor of that man died childless?
1102.
How did Creon die?
1103.
Who bore the poisoned robe to Glauce?
1104.
Who gave Medea the dragon-drawn chariot in which she escaped from Corinth?
1105.
If Mermerus and Pheres were stoned to death by the Corinthians, not killed by
their mother, at whose altar had vainly taken refuge?
1106.
What name did Medus take when Medea sent him to Colchis?
1107.
What man, killed by Aeneas, took over the command of Philoctetes’s forces at
Troy when Philoctetes was wounded?
1108.
With what king did Perseus trade cities, with Perseus receiving Tiryns in return
for Argos?
1109.
As a reward for what deed did Creon give his daughter, Megara, in marriage to
Heracles?
1110.
For what public works built by Car, the city’s founder, was the city named?
1111.
How did Tiresias die at Telthusa?
1112.
What country, formerly occupied by the Melampodes, was the location of
Phaethon’s childhood?
1113.
Whose weddings are about to be celebrated, in the Odyssey, when Telemachus
arrives in Sparta?
1114.
The servants of what king, with whom Melampus was staying, killed the snake
whose children taught him the language to the animals?
1115.
How did Melampus impress Phylacus sufficiently for him to let him out of jail?
1116.
Who told Melampus how to cure Iphiclus’s impotence?
1117.
What did Melampus make Iphiclus drink to cure him?
1118.
What two names are given to the man who won the footrace with Atalanta?
1119.
What two sons of Melanippe and Poseidon were suckled by a cow?
1120.
What couple raised them?
1121.
Which Fate prophesied that Meleager would die when the log burned up?
1122.
What daughter did Cleopatra bear Meleager?
1123.
Into what life-form were Meleager’s sisters turned in grief from his death?
1124.
What was Palaemon’s Roman name?
1125.
What son of Poeciles did Cadmus leave on Thera (then called Calliste) on his way
from Phoenicia to Greece?
1126.
With what Egyptian deity did the Greeks associate Hephaestus?
1127.
With what two kings did the Atreidae grow up, having been sent away by their
father because of the danger of Thyestes?
1128.
If Helen was actually in Egypt during the Trojan War, while Paris had a cloudfacsimile Helen, what Egyptian king tried to force her to marry him?
1129.
From what social class did Menestheus, the first demagogue, draw his strongest
support?
1130.
What Thespian youth was picked to be sacrificed to a dragon, but was saved by
his lover, Menestratus, putting on pointy armor and offering himself in his place?
1131.
What daughter of Orion was the mother of Hylas by Theiodamas?
1132.
What herdsman of Hades was only saved from death, while wrestling Heracles,
by Persephone’s intercession (verbal) on his behalf?
1133.
Ilus knew how to make poisions because he was descended from Medea. How so?
1134.
What grandfather of Aesacus taught him to interpret dreams?
1135.
What daughter of Triopas married Polycaon, and was the driving force in the
political advancement of the couple? She became the only woman honored with hero’s
rites.
1136.
Caucon showed her whose rites, which that woman brought into Messenia?
1137.
Messene and Polycaon led colonists from what two cities into Messenia?
1138.
According to most versions, which of Scylla and Charybdis was on the Italian
side of the Straits of Messina?
1139.
What two brothers exiled Xuthus for judging that the throne of Athens should go
to Cecrops, their elder brother?
1140.
What king discovered both black and white lead?
1141.
Who were the children of Miletus and Cyaneë?
1142.
Who succeeded Minos as king of Crete?
1143.
What was the Minotaur’s name?
1144.
What father of Clymene was the first man to build a treasury?
1145.
Where did the contest of prophecy between Mopsus and Calchas take place?
1146.
What hero was honored, in one city, solely for his services chasing away flies?
1147.
What king of Laconia, the elder son of Lelex, invented the mill?
1148.
Who was Myrrha’s mother?
1149.
Who was honored as a hero in Latium, even down into the time of Evander,
because he killed Cacus?
1150.
What had Cacus done to earn the hero’s ire?
1151.
From whom did Cadmus acquire the moon-patterned cow that showed him where
to find Thebes?
1152.
Under what Phoenician name did Cadmus honor Athena?
1153.
What was the name of the spring at which Cadmus encountered Ares’s dragon?
1154.
What ally of Turnus from Praeneste was born when a spark from a hearth-fire
flew into his mother’s lap? (And so he was called the son of Vulcan.)
1155.
How was Caeneus, who was once a girl, killed?
1156.
What son of Thestor predicted that Troy would not be taken without the young
Achilles?
1157.
What queen of Thesprotia might Odysseus have married and had a son,
Polypoetes, by?
1158.
If not Zeus, who arbitrated between Aphrodite and Persephone over the infant
Adonis?
1159.
Who were the parents of Geryon?
1160.
How did the amorous Zeus gain Callisto’s confidence?
1161.
What favor did Hera ask Oceanus and Tethys regarding Callisto?
1162.
Why were Oceanus and Tethys favorably inclined to grant that request?
1163.
What two fellow Arcadians of Atalanta were gun-shy about participating in the
Calydonian boar hunt because of her presence?
1164.
What daughter of Atlas was commanded by Hermes to let Odysseus go from
Ogygia?
1165.
What Latin deities were associated with the Muses?
1166.
What did Metabus feed the infant Camilla, his daughter by Casmilla?
1167.
At what city in Egypt did Io finally get to stop wandering?
1168.
Who were the parents of Anchises’s father?
1169.
What wife of Evander adapted the Greek alphabet to Latin?
1170.
What king of the Gaetulians took over Carthage after Dido’s death?
1171.
Under what name did Cassandra have a shrine at Amyclae, where she was buried?
1172.
What river-god was the father of Oenone and Hesperia/Asterope, the person
Aesacus loved in vain?
1173.
What half-brother of Hector served as his charioteer until he was killed by
Patroclus? (Hector tried to defend his body from the Greeks pillaging, but was
unsuccessful.)
1174.
Which Harpy, the only one named by Homer, was the mother of Xanthus and
Balius?
1175.
If Neoptolemus ruled against Odysseus in an arbitration, requiring Odysseus to
leave Ithaca, why did he do so?
1176.
Why did Amphitryon give the then-unnamed Cephallenia to Cephalus?
1177.
Who succeeded Cepheus on the throne of Ethiopia?
1178.
What Lydian dwarves were warned by their mother, Theia, not to fall into the
hands of someone with a black bottom?
1179.
Why did the inhabitants of Ceüs ask Aristaeüs for help?
1180.
How did he help them?
1181.
Who told Peleus, on behalf of the major gods, how to win Thetis?
1182.
What artistic skill did Chiron possess?
1183.
According to Homer, who reared the Chimaera?
1184.
Chione bore Autolycus to Hermes, and Philammon to Apollo. They were
conceived within 24 hours of each other. Which god’s child was conceived first?
1185.
Than whom did Chione claim that she was more beautiful?1
1186.
From what peak did Daedalion throw himself, becoming turned into a hawk?
1187.
What two children of Niobe might have survived Leto’s anger?
1188.
What people renamed themselves the Cilicians in Cilix’s honor?
1189.
What city did Polyphemus, having been abandoned in Mysia by the Argonauts,
found?
1190.
What color were the Symplegades?
1191.
What daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia married Phineus, king of Salmydessus?
1192.
What daughter of Clymenus, having been raped and impregnated by her father,
served the child to Clymenus as a banquet?
1193.
Who were the children of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra?
1194.
Who was the only person besides Penelope and Odysseus to know the secret of
Odysseus’s bed?
1
According to my dictionary, “than whom” is a “well-established” (and correct) phrase.
1195.
What daughter of Meropes was shot by Artemis for her cessation of worship?
1196.
What priestess of Artemis Triclaria at Patrae slept with her lover, Melanippus, in
that temple?
1197.
What tradition did the people of Patrae practice, having instituted it because of
that pair, until they were stopped by Eurypylus?
1198.
What Calydonian priest of Dionysus, spurned by Callirhoë, asked that Dionysus
require her sacrifice in revenge? Madness afflicted Calydon, and the oracle of Dodona
named Callirhoë to be sacrificed.
1199.
How did that end? Who died?
1200.
Into what was Leucothoë turned?
1201.
What animal was memorialized in the stars as Cancer?
1202.
As whose regent did Creon serve in the immediate aftermath of the war of the
Seven Against Thebes?
1203.
What king of Messenia, who made certain by trickery relating to a potsherd that
he drew Messenia by lot, so favored the common people that the wealthy killed him and
his two older sons?
1204.
By whom was that king of Messenia succeeded?
1205.
What Greek god was known as “He of the storeroom”?
1206.
What Greek god was known as “He who tempers”?
1207.
What first king of Iolcus married Tyro, the daughter of Salmoneus?
1208.
Tyro had two children by Poseidon, Pelias and Neleus. Who were her sons by her
husband?
1209.
What town did Phaea, the giant sow, terrorize?
1210.
What animal suckled Attis?
1211.
Who turned Aeneas’s ships into nymphs?
1212.
What son of Ares challenged Heracles to wrestle, and was killed even though his
father stepped in to help him?
1213.
What species was Cyparissus’s beloved pet?
1214.
According to the Boeotians, and possibly others, what man invoked the Furies
against Narcissus?
1215.
What color was the hair or wings of Zetes and Calaïs?
1216.
According to Homer, who was the eldest child of Zeus and Rhea?
1217.
Who were the parents of Procne and Philomela?
1218.
From what island did Chryses hail?
1219.
What mythological figure erected the geographical features now known as the
Jebel Musa and the Rock of Gibraltar?
1220.
What Greek name (not epithet) of Hades did the Romans share?
1221.
What Greek name (not epithet) of Dionysus did the Romans share?
1222.
What type of coin did Charon demand for the privilege of crossing his river?
1223.
What son of Creon was killed by the Sphinx when he failed to answer her riddle?
1224.
Whose blood named Mount Haemus?
1225.
What Ithacan seer predicted that Odysseus would return?
1226.
To a cave in what mountain did the Harpies retire after Iris saved them from Zetes
and Calais?
1227.
What Harpy referred to herself as “eldest of the Furies” in the Aeneid?
1228.
What sons did Hebe bear to Heracles?
1229.
Whose youth did Hebe restore so that he could defend the children of Heracles?
1230.
According to Hesiod, what Titan retained all her honors after Zeus threw thr rest
of them into Tartarus?
1231.
How many times did Achilles drag Hector’s body around Troy?
1232.
According to Homer, how many times had Achilles chased Hector around Troy?
1233.
What deity, rather than Priam, might have been Troilus’s father by Hecuba?
1234.
By whose 50 daughters did Heracles father 50 children?
1235.
The Dioscuri took Aethra, Theseus’s mother, back from Aphidnae with them to
be Helen’s nurse. What sister of Pirithous did they take for the same reason?
1236.
Who found and buried the body of Icarus and renamed Doliche, the island on
which he had found the body, Icaria?
1237.
To what city were Helen and Paris driven by storms on their way to Troy because
Hera, goddess of marriage, disapproved of their behavior?
1238.
What advice, according to some accounts, did Helenus give Neoptolemus about
how he should avoid disaster on his way home from the Trojan War?
1239.
What son did Andromache bear to Helenus?
1240.
Of what deity, patron of the island, was the Colossus of Rhodes a statue?
1241.
What two sons of Antenor did certain Greek leaders save during the Sack of
Troy?
1242.
What city, which Ion founded and named for its wife, was flattened by an
earthquake and swallowed by a tidal wave when invading Achaeans desecrated
Poseidon’s shrine in the city?
1243.
Who were the parents of Iolaus?
1244.
By what deities did the Greek and Trojan leaders swear to let the outcome of the
war be determined by the outcome of the single combat between Paris and Menelaüs?
1245.
To what deity did Helius cede his share of Corinth?
1246.
What did Helius threaten to do if Odysseus’s men were not punished for eating
his cattle?
1247.
Who was the mother of Dorus, Aeolus, and Xuthus by Hellen?
1248.
What son of Hephaestus might have invented the flute?
1249.
What was the subject, in the Odyssey, of Demodocus’s song?
1250.
At what spring did Hera yearly take a rejuvenating bath?
1251.
What was the name that Heracles was given at birth?
1252.
Who taught Heracles to drive a chariot?
1253.
Who taught him to fence?
1254.
Who taught him to wrestle?
1255.
Who unsuccessfully attempted to teach him music?
1256.
To what king of Orchomenus did Heracles return emissaries demanding tribute
from Thebes with their ears and noses tied around their necks?
1257.
What was the end result of the clash between Thebes and Orchomenus?
1258.
Heracles might have won the hand of Megara (there are many stories) for saving
her from what murderer of Creon?
1259.
According to Apollodorus, what was the order of Heracles’s labors?
1260.
In whose hut was Heracles entertained before setting off to kill the Nemean lion?
1261.
What request did Heracles make of him?
1262.
At what spring in Lerna did the Hydra live?
1263.
Which two labors of Heracles were invalidated and why?
1264.
Near what city did the Cerynitian hind roam, and by what river did Heracles catch
it?
1265.
What did Poseidon do for the Centaurs after Heracles routed them in the battle
started by Pholus’s wine?
1266.
The inhabitants of what city, founded by Polyphemus, celebrated an annual
searching-for-Hylas festival into historical times?
1267.
What son of Augieas had Heracles made witness the contract about his pay?
1268.
How many of the labors of Heracles took place in Arcadia?
1269.
Where did the Minotaur’s father go once Heracles released it?
1270.
What daughter of Eurystheus asked for Hippolyta’s belt?
1271.
What was the capital city of the Amazons?
1272.
What woman and what horses did Laomedon promise Heracles for saving his
daughter?
1273.
Why did Helius lend Heracles his golden cup-boat?
1274.
When Heracles was wandering through a land called Forest, he fathered three
sons by a part-snake woman. Which youngest of them, as a young man, could thread
Heracles’s bow, and which two were sent away?
1275.
What Sicilian king refused to give back the lead bull of Geryon’s herd when it
swam away from Heracles and into his possession?
1276.
What sea-deity told Heracles where to find the garden of the Hesperides?
1277.
When Heracles wished to be purified of the murder of the Centaurs, Eumolpus, an
Eleusinian, performed the favor. However, Eumolpus could not purify a foreigner, so
what Eleusinian adopted Heracles?
1278.
Who inducted Heracles into the Eleusinian mysteries?
1279.
When Heracles descended to the dead, according to Apollodorus, which two
shades did not flee before him?
1280.
Why did Menoetius, Hades’s herdsman, attack Heracles?
1281.
What was the name of the Pythia who refused to speak with Heracles?
1282.
How did Heracles respond?
1283.
How did Nessus claim he had won the right to ferry people across the Evenus?
1284.
What daughter of Heracles sacrificed herself so that Eurystheus would not be able
to defeat the Athenians with whom the first-generation Heraclids had taken refuge?
1285.
Aristodemus was struck by lightning while the Heraclids were gathering in
Naupactus. A plague struck the army. An oracle revealed that they were being punished
for the death of a seer that they had thought was a spy. What killer of that seer was
exiled?
1286.
How was Oxylus “three-eyed”? (And so the right person to guide the Heraclids.)
1287.
The sons of Aristodemus drew Sparta by lot, and founded opposing houses.
Cresphontes won Messenia through a potsherd-related trick. What city did Temenus
draw?
1288.
Who won the first event in the first Heraean games?
1289.
What was an alternate name for the young Hermaphroditus?
1290.
Why did Hermes turn Battus to stone?
1291.
What form did Hermes take to hide from Typhon in Egypt?
1292.
What woman ran faster than Hermes, and would have escaped his amorous
advances had she not slipped on hides he had placed in her way?
1293.
Who was the son of Hermes and Erechtheus?
1294.
What was the planet Mercury called by the Greeks?
1295.
Who had given the tree of the Hesperides to Hera, and on what occasion?
1296.
What spring did Pegasus create on Mount Helicon?
1297.
What daughter of Mestor and Lycidice was the mother of Taphius?
1298.
Hyettus, eponym of a Boeotian town, was the first man to punish another for
adultery. What man did he punish?
1299.
To what eldest son of his and Dejanira’s did Heracles will Iole?
1300.
To whom did the pet stag that Ascanius shot belong?
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